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[Possible edits for F.Scott Fitzgerald]

Early life

After graduating from the Newman School in 1913, Fitzgerald decided to stay in New Jersey to continue his artistic development at Princeton University. He tried out for the college football team, but was cut the first day of practice. He firmly dedicated himself at Princeton to honing his craft as a writer, and became friends with future critics and writers Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop. He wrote for the Princeton Triangle Club, the Nassau Lit, and the Princeton Tiger. He also was involved in the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, which ran the Nassau Lit. His absorption in the Triangle—a kind of musical-comedy society—led to his submission of a novel to Charles Scribner's Sons where the editor praised the writing but ultimately rejected the book. Four of the University's eating clubs sent him bids at midyear, and he chose the University Cottage Club (where Fitzgerald's desk and writing materials are still displayed in its library) known as "the 'Big Four' club that was most committed to the ideal of the fashionable gentleman." While attending Princeton Fitzgerald met a woman named Ginevra King.She was a beautiful and wealthy girl from Lake Forest Ill.Her and Fitzgerald had a romantic relationship from 1915 to 1917. Although their relationship did not last long remained an archetype for Fitzgerald, he used her as inspiration for the character Daisy Buchanan in his novel The Great Gatsby.